With less than 12 hours to go until Apple gets on stage and shows off the next version of iOS, Google’s Andy Rubin, the father of Android, used Twitter to announce to the world that over 900,000 devices running his mobile OS are being activated on a daily basis, IntoMobile reports.
That’s 81 million every quarter, or almost 330 million every year.
Rubin also squashed the rumors that say he’s going to leave the search giant.
Research firm IDC says 1.5 billion mobile phones shipped in 2011, 11.1% more than in 2010. Applying Google’s rate of 900,000 units per day to that 1.5 billion figure, and assuming growth in 2012 is the same as growth in 2011, means roughly one out of every five mobile phones that will be sold this year will have Android onboard, the report says.
